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  • A Tale of Two Cities

    May 16, 2016 |

    POZ Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Two of America’s largest cities, New York City and San Francisco, are working to reduce HIV rates by bringing better health care options closer to the communities and connecting individuals with resources such as insurance and payment methods. Although the two cities are using different approaches, both are seeing early success in fighting against the epidemic.

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  • Ideas Help No One on a Shelf. Take Them to the World.

    February 29, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu

    Distributing, promoting and lending continuing support to good ideas for fixing the world’s woes is as critical a task as thinking them up in the first place.

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  • It Takes A Village to Not Marry A Girl

    February 25, 2016 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    Some communities in Malawi are beginning to fight child marriage their own way—with music, dance, and a few tears, using theater to motivate cultural change.

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  • It Took 20 Years For The Government To Pay For An Obvious Way To Prevent HIV

    January 08, 2016 |

    FiveThirtyEight |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    After years of seeing evidence that needle exchange programs helped prevent the spread of HIV, Congress finally lifted its ban on federal funding for groups that provide the service.

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  • How to Stop Crypto, a Deadly Disease so Neglected It's Missed on the 'Neglected' List

    January 04, 2016 |

    Newsweek |

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    Response Location: United States, Norman, Oklahoma

    Though it claims as many as 300,000 lives every year, meningitis is not widely regarded as a major health problem by many health organizations in comparison to more familiar diseases like tuberculosis. One family-run company in Oklahoma is working to tackle the disease by developing simpler tools like the Cryptococcal Antigen Lateral Flow Assay, or CrAg LFA, to diagnose fungal infections. Faster and more accurate than previous methods, and significantly less expensive, the test allows for earlier diagnosis and treatment.

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  • The Story Behind the First-Ever Life Insurance Coverage for People With HIV

    December 07, 2015 |

    GOOD Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Up until 2015, people living with HIV in the U.S. could not buy term life insurance, outside of a few small-value employer policies. Æqualis, a new company in partnership with Prudential Financial, began offering 10- and 15-year life insurance policies to individual consumers to help them and to reduce stigmas surrounding the disease.

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  • San Francisco Dedicates More Money to End HIV

    October 29, 2015 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco wants to be the first city in the world to reduce its number of new HIV infections and deaths to zero. The city is relying heavily on two initiatives: getting people with HIV into antiretroviral treatment much faster, and expanding use of the HIV prevention pill, Truvada.

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  • San Francisco Is Changing Face of AIDS Treatment

    October 05, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The H.I.V. infection rate in San Francisco dropped drastically after the city increased testing and created programs like Rapid, which immediately offer public health insurance, antiretroviral drugs, and personal counselors for people with AIDS.

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  • Getting to Zero': Are We Close to a Cure for AIDS?

    August 17, 2015 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    For decades, AIDS has taken the lives of millions of people and infected millions more worldwide. The key to reducing the effect of AIDS, and even potentially curing it, involves treating patients as early as possible after being diagnosed with HIV, before the disease damages organs. San Francisco General Hospital developed the RAPID program for this purpose, with the goal of “Getting to Zero” the number of new infections and deaths.

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  • Can teaching Kenyan girls to save money also save them from HIV?

    December 01, 2014 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi Area

    For adolescent girls in Kenya, poverty increases the likelihood of sexual exploitation. The Safe and Smart Savings program at Zelyn Academy creates a “safe space," where girls can talk about two seemingly disparate — and often taboo — topics: smart savings and reproductive and sexual health, and help break the cycles of poverty and HIV/AIDS.

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